 This is my first cup and I came here because I got persuaded by IID to come and The first couple of days where we met for the DNC was fun. I had to remind everybody about urban urban poor women And everybody accepted it very easily acknowledged it came back and told me yes We should remember that and I'd like to know six months later whether it actually gets integrated into this sort of stuff But my experience yesterday at the cop was very traumatic. I Was invited to a special session which tried to bring people in government private sector and We think community representatives to talk about the need to produce flows of funds then Build up on the top and then flow to communities There's a session with lots of speakers. We were all given time a couple of minutes in which we had to say what we wanted to say and I was absolutely amazed that many of the earliest speakers People who had to leave the session and run so the whole schedule was changed and so Three of us or four of us who were Community people ended up speaking last now. This is the tradition of every single Panel I've been to where we are like the token community people who are brought in To show that there's a lot of good feelings towards us Well, that was not only bad that I was I ended up being the last speaker Chair chose to stop the session while I was hitting the button Even more shocking was there was not a single person in that whole room that protested my my friend from Zambia who spoke about Rural women and they need to have funds and very passionately got a huge applause So I assumed that they'd want to hear somebody else talk about it Nobody said instead everybody came out Fat in me and said poor thing. You didn't get a chance to talk. Can we give you another chance to talk? And I was furious. I Was ashamed to be part of a process in which community people get treated imagine instead of me there was a Community I don't want to be part of such a process. I will never go and speak at a place where I'm treated like this The protocol has to change We keep talking about all these Wonderful things women should be in the center processes should be most in power Empowerment must work. These are all phrases that come so easily to people It when you go for the evidence Just doesn't exist So I wonder whether that's the new tradition that the cop process is going to bring Because that's not the path to sustainability Leaving nobody behind because we're all getting left behind